It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn.

My plainness of speech makes people hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth.

Follow your dream as long as you live, do not lessen the time of following desire, for wasting time is an abomination of the spirit.

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, you cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

Music is a defining element of character.

To begin is the most important part of any quest and by far the most courageous.

Rhythm and harmony enter most powerfully into the inner most part of the soul and lay forcible hands upon it, bearing grace with them, so making graceful him who is rightly trained.